Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue

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There’s a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never be uttered in a theater. A play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody, severed head. A play filled with riddles, prophecies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder. But is it really all that good? Brendan Pelsue explains why you should read (or revisit) "Macbeth."
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@TheScienceBiome 6 лет назад

Someone give the animator a raise.

@uniqueusername_ 6 лет назад

a BIG one

@paxonite-7bd5 6 лет назад

A really BIG one!

@glasshoes9337 6 лет назад

The Science Biome does anybody know who the animators are?

@sunspot5080 6 лет назад

a small raise of a million dollars

@jacrooki9560 6 лет назад

GOD DAMN IT WAS GORGEOUS

@nivob3404 3 года назад

"what is done is done" -------> years later adaptation: "IT IS WHAT IT ISSSSSSSSSS"

@bryan6040 3 года назад

Damn; what if a few centuries later this becomes the official Shakespeare quote and WAP becomes the new Macbeth oh lord

@bluemoonyoru8069 3 года назад

PERIODT SIS💅

@Damonistique 3 года назад

or Tenet :D

@DoomerDarling 3 года назад

Or another variation: “it be like that sometimes”

@EasyEnglishWithBharti 3 года назад

And now it is more like "You gotta do what you gotta do."

@unclebayek8923 4 года назад

3:29 "Shakespeare provides viewers with some of the most memorable passages in English literature: " *_WHAT, YOU EGG!_*

@jordanplays4202 3 года назад

[He stabs him.]

@TacticalMetalJoegaming 2 года назад

xDDDD

@bychen5011 2 года назад

[They fight. Tybalt falls.]

@TheNabOwnzz 2 года назад

[Dies.]

@z.siblings9055 2 года назад

AHAHAAHHAHA I HAVE TO READ IT NOW

@kentondickerson 6 лет назад

The great mistake that many schools make is making students read these plays before they see them on stage or in a movie.

@leticiasantiago7159 2 года назад

Yep, I've read it once but I honestly don't think I even got the message right. I mean, I understood it, but I didn't feel it. And I'm a Literature student, so... I agree with you. The book is fine but plays were meant to be PLAYED, not READ.

@hunterbarwary010 2 года назад

Agreed

@JacobMinger 2 года назад

I only survived Hamlet in school because I had Kenneth Branagh’s 4 hour film production that I watched as a study aide. I recently rediscovered a love of Shakespeare thanks to a Manga adaptation of the full text as well as Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood

@notazula Год назад

you said it. if not for the plays and movies made of the things they've made us read, i don't think i would have ever fully understood the story. it makes it more fun and educational too

@AfroLion01 Год назад

I unfortunately did Macbeth in 2020 and the English teacher we did it with insisted there was no movie but we were 'voice-acting' it out in class before COVID struck and I loved it. Then she left and we did Things Fall Apart(a great book by Chinua Achebe) with the new teacher but yeah we weren't assessed on Macbeth. I felt so jealous of the Grade 11s who got to do it last year in my school.

@Redpuff101 6 лет назад

You know what else is a tragedy ? My grade after the Macbeth essay.

@mike2x437 4 года назад

U right

@amaaneeismail5256 4 года назад

dude, same here lol

@NynZhan 4 года назад

@Espada kurosaki I am, and I did it

@user-dp9yn7zf4l 4 года назад

easy C- for me

@micahtshibangu7402 3 года назад

AsianNinjaNation Bridge to terabithia was tragic essay. Maybe only canberrans read it

@vraos4240 6 лет назад

The voice of this narrator is gold

@apolloholmes208 4 года назад

Yes...his voice (Mr. Adrian Dannatt) and Mr. Jack Cuthmore- Scott is the best for me...

@karenstrong6734 4 года назад

Apollo Holmes I love to see this narrator narrate a book.

@jordanoswald8648 3 года назад

At first I thought it was Terrence Stamp doing the narration

@elwn. 3 года назад

Vraos you mean divin

@vjekokolic9057 3 года назад

The narrator has an amasing voice, he should be an audiobook reader

@poojasbehaviour8530 3 года назад

honestly, everyone's saying "what, you egg" but my favourite quote is actually the witches calling some lady a "rump-fed ronyon", it's just 👌

@joshuamark9316 3 года назад

Mine is probably that one time when lady macbeth uses an analogy of smashing a baby against a wall to get her point across

@notverypog 2 года назад

@@joshuamark9316 lmao she got no chill

@z.siblings9055 2 года назад

AHAHAHHA NO WAIT WHAT I HAVE TO READ THAT

@poojasbehaviour8530 2 года назад

@@joshuamark9316 oh dude that was brutal

@ohivonmenisunuoya 2 года назад

@@joshuamark9316 lol 😆 I need to read this book again

@SRoy-rk3tj 5 лет назад

My favorite quote from the play “What, you Egg”! [Stabs Him]

@blueace1000 2 года назад

"He has killed me, mother"

@z.siblings9055 2 года назад

THIS IS THE LITERAL FUNNIEST VERSION OF "WHAT YOU EGG" I HAVE SEEN IN THIS ENTIRE COMMENT SECTION

@amonickerofprofoundpretention 6 лет назад

Animation's bloody gorgeous. And the Tragedy of Macbeth is bloody, gorgeous.

@sansamman4619 6 лет назад

Georgia S. seriously mate! your are so bloody right.

@deanjohnson6120 6 лет назад

Georgia S. Just because you say “gorgeous” does not make you seem literate. Nor does it make you seem intelligent.

@FightingTorque411 6 лет назад

Dean Johnson does Georgia need to "seem" literate and intelligent? I don't see how you deduce that using that single word makes one a try-hard.

@PutYoRhymeOn 6 лет назад

Dean Johnson uhhh you're taking the wrong memo from his comment, mate.

@gambithd59 5 лет назад

Nice use of antanaclasis

@omaralmubayd6051 6 лет назад

I would love to see the whole play in this style of drawing ...that would be divine.

@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 6 лет назад

You know what, you're right; that would most [agreeably] be an absolutely brilliant request.

@omaralmubayd6051 6 лет назад

QuartermasterEM16 Thank you

@alfredthepatientxcvi 6 лет назад

Omar Almubayd there are some recent movies about it like around 2015. Check them

@omaralmubayd6051 6 лет назад

Alfred Acar I will, thank you.

@emmytweetie2177 6 лет назад

Omar Almubayd [insert posh laughter]

@ruchipeiris1663 5 лет назад

Sees this video Thumbnail: why should you read Macbeth? ME: cuz it's in my syllabus !

@adrianasaba7344 3 года назад

literally

@chietrinidad1753 2 года назад

😂

@youtubeuser4028 2 года назад

And the tragedy for me is that I am an English literature student and don't like to read 😭 because I never got time in school years to read for fun so now I don't like it 😭 that's how Indian education system works

@Perririri 2 года назад

"Out, damned syllabi!"

@dantelu7652 3 года назад

We need an audiobook voicing the whole play with this magical sound 2:53 Can't stop re-listening to him...

@wadeslovick2815 6 лет назад

What, you egg? *He stabs him*

@tidebleach9667 6 лет назад

Sentic Memes best line in the entire play

@derekvigil9788 6 лет назад

Sentic Memes *I’m dying*

@tracewyrm 6 лет назад

Y O U. E G G

@annag6400 6 лет назад

Superior Vigil So was he

@weiyin8046 6 лет назад

my personal favourite shakespeare line is romeo and juliet “You are a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed?”

@supercanadian0640 6 лет назад

Macbeth is what stopped me from overthrowing the government

@ShauryamAkhoury 6 лет назад

The Ace Of Spades I see you in every comment section

@ifurkend 6 лет назад

We need Sibyl System, but without that bloody Dominator.

@golammorshed9082 6 лет назад

The Ace Of Spades Macbeth is what got me in politics. I want bloodlust

@EmilReiko 6 лет назад

In other words, Im only here for the violence.

@Crispr00 6 лет назад

The Ace Of Spades nooo

@SydTom2021 3 года назад

Ted-Ed: Why you should read Macbeth Year 9 English: Allow me to introduce myself

@LorddirtGaming 2 года назад

Year 10 English for me right at this moment.

@alizaubaid2784 2 года назад

year 8 for me 😭

@Robin-eq7uz 2 года назад

Year 12 for me, but I'm German so as a secondary language, I think Macbeth counts as being more advanced material.

@Violetgalaxyshimmer33 2 года назад

@@LorddirtGaming same

@cheeseboi8769 2 года назад

me learning it in year 6 0

@marvelfangirl3328 5 лет назад

*"By the pricking of my thumbs,"* *"Something wicked this way comes."* - William Shakespeare, _Macbeth_

@mahmoodabdulrazzaq5033 6 лет назад

This is my favorite animation and voice-over pair for any TED Ed video so far. Absolutely surreal.

@RICE-lq1zc 5 лет назад

900 likes, no comment? Here, have one

@Kaseus-lq7cj 5 лет назад

A third!

@mincao8003 5 лет назад

You pull out words out of my thoughts! I was thinking exactly the same thing but had not gotten a chance to articulate it and then saw your comments!

@pops1878 4 года назад

Yep

@Gadget-Walkmen 4 года назад

yeah

@rea8585 6 лет назад

The more I read the old classics, the more I am realizing we might have progressed in so many areas, but the way we think and handle our emotions and instincts has stayed pretty much the same. We have similar problems as people living centuries before us and are asking ourselves the same existential questions that exist since a loooong time ago. Power changes people in different ways and if the person doesn't have a clear vision of what they want to achieve, it is easy to miss the right turn and just keep going deeper and deeper into darkness. :)

@idib1739 6 лет назад

indeed, No matter how much we learn throughout history, human nature is till human nature. I'm not optimistic about how it'll all en though.

@guesswhoami4723 6 лет назад

Quick Fix loved what you said and I myself so much agree...

@scrap8660 6 лет назад

Quick Fix naaaaah now everyone’s obsessed with memes

@sagarsaxena6318 6 лет назад

Yes! That's one major reason a lot of these books are relevant even today.I would go so far as to say that any form of well-made art that evokes or touches upon such issues becomes timeless.So,Macbeth will stay relevant as long as humanity exists.

@pooshpoosh9232 6 лет назад

Quick Fix back then they were said because they couldn't eat high class sugar. Now we get said because we can't have a Ferrari , same emotions with different aspects

@taun96 2 года назад

There's also an Indian version of Macbeth called Maqbool. It's part of the Shakespeare Trilogy by this famous Indian director, Vikas Bharadwaj. He adapted Macbeth into Maqbool, Othello into Omkara, and Hamlet into Haider. Each story borrows themes from the original story, but places them in scenarios similar to Indians.

@inkyboy88 6 месяцев назад

Sounds cool. I’ll look into them.

@lou626 5 месяцев назад

Kinda ruined it tbh

@zainab4132 5 лет назад

My God - this was insanely beautiful. The voice, the content, the animations. Thanks so much for this! I wish I could give the video a million thumbs up.

@sm6756 6 лет назад

Lady Macbeth “Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?” “Will these hands never been clean?” Outstanding story!

@geronimohayauxdutilly2136 6 лет назад

Sarah Mortada don't forget " All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" Tbh I like Lady Macbeth more than Macbeth as a character

@sm6756 6 лет назад

Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly Ah , I liked Macbeth as well. All the characters felt so real and deep

@Tombee2 6 лет назад

Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly honestly she's the coolest character.

@franziska9260 6 лет назад

Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly Agreed, she is in my opinion the most memorable character from the play

@kadijahamad9862 5 лет назад

Good god she is one of the most interesting characters Shakespeare ever created

@Vulkrein 6 лет назад

"What? You Egg!" (Stabs him) -Macbeth

@Vulkrein 6 лет назад

The reference was macbeth but she did not say this line, i apologize

@Lulu-fq8xw 3 года назад

@@Vulkrein Macbeth never said this line himself The first murderer did

@user-dz2hj6jo5h 5 лет назад

“Why you should read Macbeth” Me: Read it to pass the aqa gcse literature exam🗿🗿🗿🗿

@veganpiranha3302 5 лет назад

Albinox Hahahaha

@aliserkansar335 5 лет назад

This play made my heart pulped faster than ever before happened. Lady and Lord Macbeth's ambigiuties are quite philosophical. You should think that why a man commits a horrible betrayal even if he know that he would be regret. Lord Macbeth is the mirror of many politicians throughout the history.

@troy6164 6 лет назад

the animation was gorgeous

@idib1739 6 лет назад

The animation in here is next level. So well made, and probably not cheap to produce though. Keep up the good work guys.

@isabellabornberg2153 6 лет назад

Idi B +

@M-E-A-T 5 лет назад

@J D no u

@naokihunter7252 4 года назад

*In scottish voice* "WHAT YOU EGG" *stab*

@fivetimesyo 4 года назад

Without a doubt a high school highlight

@Eh-kw1sp 3 года назад

would that make him a... scotch egg!?

@elizabethharris3445 3 года назад

With a side of small fry...

@LEGENDSREIMAGINED17 4 года назад

Macbeth is one of the masterpieces of Shakespeare. It's universality is marvellous as it is nearly the story of every Dictator ever ruled.

@juniormachado4456 6 лет назад

Shakespeare leaves a class looking like the end of Macbeth

@gregg6077 6 лет назад

Junior Machado too true

@firewall5189 6 лет назад

if this is an ERB reference that i wasnt expecting, im eating my shoe

@juniormachado4456 6 лет назад

The Overlord | Yes it is. Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss right? :D

@woden__ 5 лет назад

I was waiting for this

@ananya.a. 6 лет назад

My dearest, Angelica. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day. I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish Tragedy without my having to name the play-

@darvog1983 6 лет назад

I was looking for this

@joshuaterania9071 6 лет назад

Hamilfans gotta unite 😂

@sandrarivera1262 6 лет назад

On The Wall Ah, I knew I would find Hamilton fans here😎

@kiwireeds5883 6 лет назад

OMYWORD! THIS JUST SHED A NEW LIGHT!

@romysuter9642 5 лет назад

when we started macbeth at school all i could think of was this quote lmao

@puru397 5 лет назад

Another excellent line from Macbeth: "Blow, wind, come, wrack, At least we'll die with harness on our back." Another perspective on Macbeth would be to look on him as a brave and intelligent man, misled bt a conspiracy of circumstances and misguided by his own frailties. His courage and honesty are obvious in the beginning, obscured and tainted in the middle, and come out again in the end. This is clear from the two great soliloquies towards the ending: 1) My life has fallen into the sere and the yellow leaf And all that should accompany old age Such as love, honour, troops of friends These I must not look to have, but in their stead Mouth-honour, breath, curses not loud but deep Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not." 2) The famous soliloquy beginning : Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.... These two monologues show him to be an essentially decent man trapped in a dreadful situation.

@jennymacallan9071 3 года назад

As a retired English teacher, I couldn't agree more. Many of Macbeth's lines show his soul-searching and ambivalence. The "yellow leaf" speech is my favorite. You point out all this quite nicely.

@jeannadysart5243 3 года назад

English teacher, too. I agree with you, generally, except for your reluctance to put the consequences of Macbeth's life upon himself. If he was "trapped in a dreadful situation," it was one of his own making. Yes, he has heroic qualities, but his ambition overcame his conscience, his integrity, and his dedication to duty. He dishonored himself, the very definition of a tragic hero.

@njrom2975 2 года назад

@@jeannadysart5243 not a hero anymore , he is now the villain , the protagonist villain

@jeannadysart5243 2 года назад

@@njrom2975 In Shakespeare's history plays, you can use the term "protagonist villain," though in all my years of teaching Shakespeare, I've only seen that term in a few scholarly papers. But Richard III does comes to mind. In Shakespeare's tragedies, however, you misunderstand the meaning of "tragic hero" if you don't recognize Macbeth (or Hamlet, King Lear, Othello . . . ) as a tragic hero. There are villains in the tragedies, to be sure: Iago, Goneril and Regan, Claudius, Lady Macbeth ...

@nix.i Год назад

@@njrom2975 ‘Protagonist villain’ sounds pretty clunky, and only Shakespeare tragedy in which ‘protagonist villain’ is truly applicable is Richard III (but I would still rather call Gloster a Machiavellian Villain than a protagonist villain, because it‘s more accurate and sounds better). He revels in his villainy and his downfall is glorious. Macbeth, on the other hand, is a tragic hero rather than a villain.

@lenkngomez8451 4 года назад

This book, plus lord of the flies and other books you have mentioned I have never read them in school mainly because I thought it was boring and never wanted to do a project on them. I felt like they were forced on , I felt like they didn’t wanted to teach you the actual meaning of it, just read do the exam and blah blah blah so we can move on. This video alone makes me want to read and dive in the human psyche and consciousness especially the lord of the flies one. I’m going to read all of them.

@bbilal111 2 года назад

I’m guessing you still didn’t?

@MinecraftSinss 6 лет назад

Macbeth was forced upon me in school, I can't avoid it.

@AWKWAKAE 6 лет назад

MinecraftSinss yessss like I had no choice if I wanted to read it or not

@mattparker7932 6 лет назад

I was actually drawn to it as a youth after seeing a more historical take on Macbeth featured in the animated series Gargoyles. Good stuff.

@youssefabdelrahim972 6 лет назад

it's forced upon me right now , but i am glad with it

@theevokeruser2356 6 лет назад

MinecraftSinss school pretty much forced us to read it. However Romeo and Juliet was the one we looked at constantly. Year after year it was always Romeo and Juliet and I got sick of it.

@NM-cl6um 6 лет назад

I have just complete reading it

@Merrypaws 6 лет назад

One of TED-Ed's finest videos to date. Gorgeous animation, riveting voice over and excellent pacing, making for not only educational, but truly dramatic telling, which makes learning a captivating experience.

@noahconley867 4 года назад

The best part of Macbeth is the fact that j.r.r Tolkien was so disappointed that the trees didn't actually move, he made the Ents.

@kc-gr9rj 3 года назад

pov: it’s 10:25pm and i- your watching this for m- your honors english assignment

@siddjoshi2053 6 лет назад

*_W.Shakespeare is the original Q.Tarantino._*

@adren4306 6 лет назад

I never thought about it that way. Interesting.

@Motofanable 6 лет назад

Just watch movie version en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus

@komalahayes1535 5 лет назад

I almost picked English for grad school over Sociology. I wanted to study how Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Tarintino were linked😋NERRRD!!!! 😛😛😛

@charliechaplin7959 5 лет назад

Komala Hayes Did you read Erich Fromm?

@mattj.7756 4 года назад

That would be a great “Change My Mind” challenge

@a.a2697 6 лет назад

You wouldn't be applauding it so much if you had to learn this play in your exam

@firewall5189 6 лет назад

Studied it for 4 weeks straight with 2 essays on it, still applauding it lol

@tubthungusbychumbungus 6 лет назад

The Overlord I have to study it for 2 years. Its getting pretty tedious now...

@firewall5189 6 лет назад

sorry to hear Karina, paying my respects

@tubthungusbychumbungus 6 лет назад

The Overlord Thank you... I get through it

@dakshinibhattacharya996 6 лет назад

Read it for an entire year, doing multiple essays on a number of different aspects and characters in the play... and still could not get enough of it :) Can't decide which one I love more though, this one or Julius Caesar!

@luisagf1385 3 года назад

“Some of the most memorable passages in English literature” Me: “what, you egg [he stabs him]”

@somyajindal 3 года назад

Dear TedEd, your team is doing literally magical work, please never stop!

@Star-gt1uu 6 лет назад

Fairplay to the narrator.That was magnificent

@d_wang9836 6 лет назад

To read or not to read. That isth thy question

@matthewblairrains6032 6 лет назад

[Yoshikage_Kira] aka Handy Man, Duwang Man, *chew* that's the wrong quote your using Hamlet instead

@d_wang9836 6 лет назад

Matthew Blairrains I know

@mirwaizuzair6386 6 лет назад

To read the manga or to wait 1000 years for part 5?

@esomoi7197 6 лет назад

[Yoshikage_Kira] aka Handy Man, Duwang Man, *chew* you mean the question. Thy means your.

@d_wang9836 6 лет назад

kingjojo I also know that I thought someone would correct me sooner

@i_am_me1238 5 лет назад

2:12 Did people do this (🤘🏻) in Shakespeare's time?

@sumbulnasim45 5 лет назад

Great job!!! This is a very good series. How beautifully you compressed the 5-Act play in 6 minutes. That's a fantastic job! Keep it up!

@GabrielKnightz 6 лет назад

Suggestion: *Niccolo Machiavelli's Prince.*

@kayelao2005 6 лет назад

Or why not the man himself?

@GabrielKnightz 6 лет назад

Sure.

@hunterpeterson6122 6 лет назад

Warren Peace Or the book he wrote about Ezio Auditore

@sejfzlrrhman 6 лет назад

Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood.

@charliechaplin7959 5 лет назад

The Essays of Montaigne.

@boldandbrash1990 6 лет назад

Recently read Macbeth in school. Although many of my classmates were probably disinterested, I couldn't get enough of the story and was completely sucked in. Although I probably wouldn't be able to understand the language without my teacher's help, I'm in love with it. I did, however, accidentally curse my school theater by absentmindedly saying to a friend, "You know, I love Macbeth." One of my favorite hobbies is reading lines of the play when I'm alone (I'm an amateur actor). Anyway, great video. I highly recommend Macbeth to anyone interested in literature!

@jeannadysart5243 3 года назад

Macbeth is my favorite tragedy. King Lear is a close second.

@boldandbrash1990 3 года назад

@@jeannadysart5243 I don't remember ever writing this comment wtf

@jeannadysart5243 3 года назад

@@boldandbrash1990 You know what they say about the Internet . . . you words live on forever!

@ninetynine_not_out 4 года назад

The switches in the accents are just too good. Mad respect.

@martincisternas4889 2 года назад

Not only the animations are incredible, but the background music as well. Very good job 👍🏻

@IAm-IAm- 6 лет назад

I read Macbeth at Uni and instantly got hooked to it. The gripping drama and tale of deceit was told in a way i had never come across in classic English literature before. Shakespeare's Macbeth was way ahead of its time exploring the depths of human psychology. I loved it.

@Finarphin 2 года назад

I can't agree Macbeth is ahead of its time; it's more like it's behind its time. Although it is psychological, psychology as a science hadn't been developed yet. It's main focus is spiritual, and specifically Christian, which, for the most part, has gone out of fashion these days. Has drama improved since Shakespeare? Has sculpture improved since Michelangelo?

@znn4125 4 месяца назад

@@Finarphin You trying to be different so bad

@Careless-Scholar 6 лет назад

the Gunpowder Plot... and today is 2nd November...The timing could not be more perfect... 'Remember, Remember the 5th of November...'

@user-rn8yy4vy1i 6 лет назад

Priyank Jain Would it be more perfect on the 5th of November?

@Careless-Scholar 6 лет назад

*Wouldn't and yes, It would be. But What's done is done ;) (Now who is witty) :P :P

@Kitisuneh 6 лет назад

Priyank Jain what is that from?

@Careless-Scholar 6 лет назад

The Poem? www.potw.org/archive/potw405.html visit the link. Its an English Folk Poem

@reginaphalange3537 6 лет назад

Priyank Jain today is

@godhimself7708 3 года назад

Along with the animation and the perfect voice over, the background score is on point!

@erpollock 5 лет назад

"Something wicked this way comes" - didn't know that was from MacBeth! We must have studied this play in high school, as I can recall the Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech and subsequent lines from it. How chilling!

@hashaborgonja 6 лет назад

The essence of McBeth, man's rebellion against nature is an eons old one. Think of something so ancient as the Babylonian creation myth, and you'll see the same themes repeated again and again.

@htoodoh5770 6 лет назад

hasábburgonya What rebellion?

@hashaborgonja 6 лет назад

The King represetns the natural state of things. KIlling him is rebelling against what's natural and makes you unnatural.

@htoodoh5770 6 лет назад

hasábburgonya What make him natural?

@hashaborgonja 6 лет назад

Htoo Doh adhering to the existing power-structures. The video quite clearly states why that theme was relevant when the play was written.

@htoodoh5770 6 лет назад

hasábburgonya The nature of things are always changing.

@mariazia9407 6 лет назад

oh my..the animations are stunning 😍

@Hattes 5 лет назад

This video is so frickin' amazing it gives me shivers multiple times viewing it. I am in awe.

@LeviAckerman-xz6mi 2 года назад

1:22 the way they placed the crown was beautiful

@remixtheidiot5771 6 лет назад

School gives me a bad impression on these stories the channel recommends because of how school forces us to read and memorize them without any give on the matter, but I might just give them another chance thanks to these videos...

@TomSistermans 6 лет назад

Come on you guys, I love these literature recommendations but I can't keep up! I haven't even started the Aeneid yet

@omaralmubayd6051 6 лет назад

omg... "Aeneid" by Virgil would take a lot of your time ...but trust me it is worth every second ...

@TomSistermans 6 лет назад

Omar Almubayd definitely, I just recently started reading these classics, I mean Ulysses sounds really interesting as well, but so do the tale of Genji, in search for lost time, the divine comedy, Don Quixote, the Canterbury tales, crime and punishment, Oedipus Rex and the epic of Gilgamesh! All books worth a video like this, all books I own, but all monsters worth a lot of time!

@charliechaplin7959 5 лет назад

Have you read the Essays of Montaigne? It is by FAR my favorite of the "classics."

@gabrielallen6896 4 года назад

Fyuch I'm hot. By,

@alextrahan6400 3 года назад

my English teacher keeps assigning videos like this (Julius Caesar) and little does she know I’ve already seen these..

@Suranjan_Malik 11 месяцев назад

Wow how beautifully this video is created. Narration, animation, music ,sound , everything is perfect..

@sophiemontecalvo7503 6 лет назад

Because it's AWESOME Okay Ted-Ed, now for your more in-depth answer

@bsriram6353 6 лет назад

Perfect answer.

@saurabhbanik7811 6 лет назад

The animation style is just amazing!!!! Also i love how the dialogues are said in a Scottish accent!!

@patriciasmith1091 6 месяцев назад

This is an incredibly well done intro to Macbeth and exactly what my students need in this video centric world. I show it to my students every semester and it really piques their interest. Seriously - great job! Thank you so much for this video!

@dhanishhamdhan769 2 года назад

I absolutely love the way he recites the prophecies and curses

@ruthydrawsalot1979 6 лет назад

This was a great story and has some of the best plot twists ever.I read it for literature class in grade nine in my high school and most people thought it was boring but I loved it

@cr3ations 2 года назад

I hope literature has stayed with you since then!

@ComputerChris2 6 лет назад

*_WHAT, YOU EGG?_*

@heliotropezzz333 6 лет назад

There's also another nice bird based quotation after one character's family is murdered and he finds out "What, all my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop?" and another about night time when "birds take wing to the rooky wood" ( I may not be wholly right as this is from memory.)

@Paulkuriansunny 3 года назад

It's been adapted into a Malayalam film called JOJI and it's freaking amazing.

@ijeleo92 6 лет назад

This animation is amazing!!!!!🙌 I wish there was a series like this.

@sweetnsourpotatoes3323 6 лет назад

What a mesmerising voice

@jivonne1991 6 лет назад

Love these literary recommendations! Please keep ‘Em coming!

@Archeia 4 года назад

Silvia's Animation on this piece is frigging amazing.

@amisfitsdiary4489 6 лет назад

omg the art in this is so beautifu!!

@andrequevedopacheco1027 6 лет назад

3:27 "The Shinning" reference

@ravynneblack4114 6 лет назад

Seriously love the animation. Love the narration as well. I have a copy of it, but never got around to reading it, cause I thought it would be boring, this completely changed my mind! Definitely reading it now!

@SwfanredLotr 3 года назад

I can't stop watching these animations and the sound effects of the beginning.

@divyasingh_1186 4 года назад

Breath-taking and gorgeous i could watch this video all day A perfect combination of the voice over and animation

@SuicideBunny6 6 лет назад

Never read or seen the play, but it surely sounds interesting. I loved the animation!

@MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing 6 лет назад

Just one correction: the succession of James VI and I was not a surprise move. He was the next in the line of succession and (in the immediate aftermath of the war of the roses) the english nobles were very heavily invested in sticking to the rules as written. He had been receiving a pension from the english crown for years prior to Elizabeth Tudor's death to incentivise him not to do anything that would make his succession politically inconvenient. Everyone knew he was going to be king basically since Elizabeth got to menopause.

@karensaar9465 4 года назад

Fantastic! Thank you Patreon and TED-Ed.

@antidepressant11 4 года назад

such high quality presentation is much appreciated

@divine.reveries4256 5 лет назад

This is so beautifully portrayed. More like these videos please. Let the literature live and breathe into life. Thanks.

@yujinc 4 года назад

Ted ed- why should we read Macbeth? Me- because it's coming in the exam¿

@pradeepdev6294 4 года назад

The animation is out of this world. It’s so brilliant. Cheers to the creators!!

@Salma-oq6oz 5 лет назад

Fantastic video!! Please make more and specifically so on Hamlet!!!

@ivanxin5609 5 лет назад

the Scottish accent of Macbeth is awesome!

@hayakhan2738 3 года назад

I played the role of lady Macbeth in an annual function at school . It was such a great and unforgettable experience. Truly memorable ! 😍❤️

@thediaryofjane5713 28 дней назад

Hi!! Not sure if you'll se this but after the play had anything happend? I've heard the play was cursed and the only way to undo is by spinning and spitting over your shoulder than quoting a play of Shakespeare or saying a profanity.

@steffywilmart7461 6 лет назад

Your videos are so amazing, interesting and beautiful. Thank you for that.

@hansooled 10 месяцев назад

ted-ed 's animators are like the most creative people everrr

@rustyshackle8000 2 года назад

Probably my favorite play ever, besides the Crucible. It got to the point I was once able to read Macbeth's monologue off the top of my head, and was overjoyed when ig ot to be him during a reading of it in high school.

@csl9843 6 лет назад

This and the riddles are my favorite series

@ramachandran-od8mg 5 лет назад

The Best Animation with sound effects and useful adtional informations on various Adaptations . thank you so much we expect more vedioes like this

@ma3.ma3 4 года назад

Wow, the animation and voiceover is top tier amazing!

@chibimena 6 лет назад

Absolutely beautiful. I got chills multiple times watching this and am wondering how it has taken me so long to read this since I am an English major after all.

@J1P2K 6 лет назад

I read the play back in high school. My favorite part of the lesson was when me, and two other boys with the same name, played the ghosts that the witches summon to tell Macbeth his future.